Fourth police officer who responded to Jan 6 attack dies by suicide

From a little light Googling I don't see that any police officers connected to the 100+ nights of rioting and protests in Portland killed themselves. Why would one event result in so many suicides while the other didn't?

These officers faced BLM hostility on the left, as well as violence against them and accusations of being traitors from the right.<p>The public that they&#x27;re supposed to serve was spitting on them and demonizing them from both sides.<p>Add a pandemic to the mix, and anybody&#x27;s mental health would be flatlining. Suicide among some of them is tragic but not surprising.<p>I don&#x27;t know how effective counseling services are, but if they do anything, they should be made available to the Jan 6 officers.<p>If anybody reading this is in a dark spot, the suicide lifeline is 800-273-8255, and it&#x27;s available 24&#x2F;7.

An apparent former D.C. police officer has posted their thoughts on this suicide, and the mood among Capitol and MPD police generally, in the Washington D.C. subreddit:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;washingtondc&#x2F;comments&#x2F;owl3ru&#x2F;third_police_officer_who_responded_to_the_us&#x2F;h7he9oh&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;washingtondc&#x2F;comments&#x2F;owl3ru&#x2F;third_...</a>

I guess I&#x27;m a cynic at heart since my mind went directly to this being somehow related to harrasment by their peers rather than being depressed about the public not appreciating them.

Does anyone else find the formulation &quot;died by suicide&quot; a bit weird? Is that commonly used?<p>Compared to &quot;committed suicide&quot; it seems to me that it is supposed to associate a passive action, as if something happened to them.<p>Just to make sure, I absolutely deplore the people storming the capitol and by no means support any of their causes. However I find this type of corporate speak often troublesome, especially if it&#x27;s being used in connection with law enforcement and military actions.

This sounds alarming, like something that could be called a mental health crisis in the DC police. How many police responded on Jan 6, maybe five hundred? 4&#x2F;500 in seven months would be a terrible rate.

&quot;More than a dozen US Capitol Police officers are under internal investigation for allegedly helping rioters&quot;<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;edition.cnn.com&#x2F;2021&#x2F;01&#x2F;13&#x2F;politics&#x2F;capitol-insurrection-insider-help&#x2F;index.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;edition.cnn.com&#x2F;2021&#x2F;01&#x2F;13&#x2F;politics&#x2F;capitol-insurrec...</a><p>Perhaps the relentless attacks from the media and some members of congress could be part of it.<p>I do suspect this is covid related if it&#x27;s not a statistical anomaly &#x2F; incorrect pattern finding. It&#x27;s messed with everyone&#x27;s heads and we are going to see that coming out with certain sub-groups before others.

I&#x27;m sorry, my first thought is murder&#x2F;coverup. Thought the same thing when it was Hunter Thompson and the 9&#x2F;11 responders. I have no evidence. And suicide is plenty plausible. Just want that idea out there for some reason. It should at least occur to people.

The opening session of the house committee investigating the attack contains first-hand accounts from officers.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=HutK2vVFqLM" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=HutK2vVFqLM</a>

Is this a normal rate of suicide in these circumstances? Is there anything to indicate that these are instead murders in order to hide something?

Well, yeah, police was endlessly demonized and underfunded in the past decade. There are a few bad apples, but that doesn&#x27;t justify group guilt and neglect. Rioters should have never been able to attack Capitol OR government buildings in Seattle&#x2F;Portland. Not saying that Jan 6 was not a bigger threat to the union of those events, although vast majority of rioters were simple hooligans with no credible plans to gain or hold power.